Hi folks, Kallie wrote: > I sell the Regency II alkalizing water filter which will kill the > bacteria and remove much of the pesticides etc. ... I am also an > affiliate for the SilverGen CS makers.
Kallie, you should always send anything of this sort in private e-mail. Please. I've seen a couple of incidents like this in the last couple of days, so I'm going to use your specific case to remind everyone about the list rules for commercial activity. As stated in the list rules at http://www.silverlist.org ... vendors of various sorts are permitted to participate in the list provided that they are acting as private individuals and not as representatives of their business interests. This should manifest itself in several ways: * They should restrict obvious advertising and self-promotion to the signature file at the end of their messages, and that be discrete even at that. * They should always list at least *several* alternatives in addition to their own product or service, if ever offering it as a suggestion, to give the recipient a head start on their own research. * They should not comment on the quality or claims of any other product, or make such statements for their own. * They should emphasize their personal experience and the things they've seen directly, and never quote marketing claims to us. * They should be helpful toward people out of the same generosity that motivates the rest of us, and any possible benefit to their business should come after that. * Ultimately, we may know them to be vendors, but we should be able to value them as contributing members of the community, first and foremost. So, any business-related communications *must* be handled via private e- mail. Since it's inevitable that another member will occasionally ask business related questions on the list, it will be the vendors' responsibility to know how to make sure that their answers take the discussion private. So you'll have to learn how to pull the correct address out of list message headers in order to send private mail. Let me know if any of you need help with that. Anyway, Kallie, thank you for helping out. I know that most of the attributes of a good vendor/member I describe above apply to you just fine. I only need to remind you, and others, just like I quietly reminded Marshall a day ago, about the restrictions on commercial activity on the list, so that we'll never end up with competing commercial interests slugging it out right in the middle of everything. Okay, folks! Back to your regularly scheduled discussion! <grin> Be well, Mike Devour list owner and ... umm, nevermind. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
